The editors of the 2018 edition of The Bolton Review are Jordan Roberts and Lene Nyland, who are both third-year Creative Writing students at the University of Bolton. Jordan moved from Reading to Bolton to study Creative Writing. He states that he ‘can’t remember a time when he didn’t write stories’. From writing stories about […]
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Ice Cream Van Man
The waves. They’re doing that thing again. Going, coming, going, like tinnitus, the rain a perpetual mist chattering, pattering just above the ground. On the off chance, a child will pull from parents’ grip and scream at gulls, they scatter, their wings ricochet through the dropping water and call reports of which bin has the […]
Sleeps in Pyjamas
I pretend to fall asleep in front of the telly, used to do it all the time. Feet bare and pink nighty you insist I wear. Mother, father, sister, call my name gently and cradle me up the stairs. Years later I wrote ‘I hate you’ on the walls of the room you painted yellow. […]
